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A colleague was urging another colleague to give up pork by claiming that pigs eat everything and anything, including their own faeces. I told her that’s probably the case for many animals, as their living conditions before slaughter are horrifying – cramped up with little space to move about, stepping on the waste of one [...]

If there is an almighty perfect creator,
the universe would be a perfect work of art.
If the universe is not a perfect work of art, 
there is no almighty perfect creator. – Stonepeace
Some see the universe as a completely perfect work of art, but they are only looking at the goodness in life - beautiful landscapes, beautiful people, beautiful [...]

Guanyin to Me
My Mother is Guanyin to me
because she prays to Guanyin for me.
She isn’t really aspiring to embody her virtues. 
She isn’t really chanting or meditating.
She just runs through a wishlist
of wanting our family to be well and happy.
She still is Guanyin-ish to me,
because she still embodies compassion to me. 
Crossing Together
You know you’re young to your [...]

During a Dharma discussion at Awareness Place (after screening of ‘The Woodsman’), a participant remarked about how difficult is was for her to express the same compassion for those she comes across in a class. She was struggling to practise equanimity for all. I answered that having equal compassion does not equate to treating all [...]

In ‘Cairo’ by G. Willow Wilson & M.K. Perker:
Asaad: How much is too much to sacrifice? For someone you love?…
Yanni: I think there aren’t any sacrifices. There are only choices. I think if you give something up for someone, it won’t feel like a sacrifice. It’ll feel like the right thing to do.
‘Bodhisattvas don’t sacrifice [...]

If taking a leak,
to purge our physical wastes
is so much a relief…
What a greater relief
it would be
to purge our mental wastes!
Related Article:
What a Relief!
http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/05/what-a-relief 

Batman, as a comic book character, was created in 1939. That makes 2009 the 70th anniversary of his creation! It’s amazing that thousands of tales have been based upon Batman, with countless revisitations to his past, uncovering previously unmentioned fragments of his otherwise unrecorded virtual history. What’s more remarkable that most of these stories can [...]

Something written for an interreligious publication…
A Buddhist charity was giving out aids to the needy in terms of cash and kind for disaster relief. What was surprising to reporters was that various individuals from all walks of life were helped despite differences in race or religion with no questions asked. Most pleasantly surprised were [...]

I helped to move a huge framed Buddha picture by a friend’s van. While placing it in the back of the van, I laid it face down. My friend remarked that it might be disrespectful – as the downward direction denotes lowliness. I replied that I placed it that way to protect the picture, as [...]